New updates for: Panzer I, changes for my German tanks and Panzer III (new project) - March 13, 2023
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog here to start 2023. I'm still waiting for the results from the exam I performed on January 15, which is taking some time to be announced. Now that the job contract at the public health center has ended, I'm going to have all the time to study, do my personal things like Blender, Unity, literary works and finding a new job in the meantime. Yet, the town hall from where I live is calling more candidates qualified from the selective process to work at the health center. There's a chance they will call me to work at that place one more time. Who knows? Also, I'm waiting to be called to work as a teacher by the Government's selective process I assigned for a while. Both are great in case I'd receive some payment for my services and skills.
University is now in course, yet I won't have the same weight compared to the previous semesters where I had two virtual exams, four activities before the recorded classrooms, four activities after the classrooms to fix my knowledge, a forum where I share two different answers, four web learning materials, four recorded classrooms and one in-person exam (for those who are online, you perform it on the computer while your activity is monitored under no circumstance of changing the browser tab or the exam would be invalidated by attempted any forms of cheating). Instead I'm going to have two virtual exams, four web learning materials, four recorded classrooms and one in-person exam. I'm not sure there will be any interdisciplinary activities. Let's hope not.
With Nightwave intermission chapter at max level (level 30 to be precise), I don't have to waste my hours to perform more boring challenges. As I concluded the New War and the Angels of Zariman, the blocked challenges are now available in case I'd play with my brother on Zariman.
Disregarding Warframe, let's go to the important thing here in this Blog. For today, For today, I'm going to bring new videos I uploaded to my channel and new images of the Panzer I Ausf. A.
Amazing results, huh? After my last Blog I wrote (New video and new updates for: Panzer I - March 10, 2023) - talking about the texturing process which my brother helped me for some ideas like wearing marks around the edges and dirt / dust accumulating at hard access points, I rendered new images of the Panzer I showing these new features. There are some parts that may require some adjustments on the Nodes for the wearing.
Before I could render these images, I noticed the dust node appearing on the decals, especially the transparent area. That wasn't a good sign and we tried different ways to fix it, until we found out we had to disable the Shadow property on the objects that contains the decals' materials. For that, one less problem to worry about.
With these Nodes for the wear off and the dust / dirt at hard access points, I decided to apply it to my Panzer IV and Tiger I.
Panzer IV Ausf. F2(G):
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Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger I:
Pretty cool. The only thing I might find it weird is dust on the inner section of the visors and the lights. I guess I'll have to do another material without the respective Nodes. And, don't mind if it's a little darker than before. William advised me to lower the light intensity and change the angles. I had to change it in almost all my Blender project files.
For the Panzer IV, I decided to render its other variants: the F1 and the F2.
Panzer IV Ausf. F1:
Panzer IV Ausf. F2:
Alright. The Panzer IV Ausf. F1 and F2. What change between the two of them and the F2(G) / G? Simple: the main gun.
The F1 uses the 75 mm KwK 37 L/24 howitzer cannon. When this German medium tank was being developed, its main role was to provide infantry support by taking down enemy fortifications and bunkers. However, it saw action against other tanks to provide help to the Panzer I, II, 35(t), 38(t) and III.
The KwK 37 equipped most models of the Panzer IV until the F2 where it received a 75 mm KwK 40 (L/43) in response to the Soviet T-34 and KV heavy tanks in the Eastern Front. Then the G variants received a new 75 mm KwK 40 (L/48) cannon until its last variants. The muzzle brake from the L/43 model had a spherical shape while the L/48's had a cylindrical shape and was a bit wide open.
Other differences between the three variants I was working on the Panzer IV are small to none. Probably I may do some components to differ on model from another. Like for example the Schürzen spaced armor.
Before I conclude this Blog, there's one last thing to show you. I had plans of starting a new tank on Blender, but I planned to make the American M4 Sherman or the Soviet T-34 in case I'd start another German tank. I guess my only interests are WW2 German tanks. And yeah, you can me addicted man to Deutsch things or add that music, This Is Deutsch from Eisbrecher.
The tank of choice is the Panzer III Ausf. J1. I started it in Blender 3.4.1 new version. In case you want to know it, here's a brief story. Prior to WW2, the development of the Panzer III and Panzer IV took a slow pace while the Germans studied to implement the new doctrine of Blitzkrieg (lightning war) by Heinz Guderian. Daimler-Benz, Krupp, MAN, and Rheinmetall presented its prototypes in 1936, with Daimler-Benz winning the competition and being selected for further development. The Panzer III would be relegated to face enemy tanks while the Panzer IV would be tasked with destroying anti-tank weapons and bunkers. Initial models with suspension systems consisted of five large wheels, especially the Ausführung A; then modifications were taken - by eight wheels similar to the Panzer IV to finally using the six wheels in the Ausführung E to N. Its main gun was the 37 mm KwK 36 - capable of taking down light armored vehicles, yet moderate to no effective against heavily armored vehicles like the French SOMUA S35, Char B1 and the British Matilda Mk I and Mk II during the initial days of WW2; and two coaxial MG34 for anti-infantry defenses. After the fall of France in 1940, the Panzer III remained in service, receiving upgrades like a new 50 mm KwK 38 cannon, new suspension system and armor plating. During Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the arrival of the Soviet KV tanks and the T-34 forced the Germans to develop new tactics, variants and upgrades for the Panzer III like the J1 and M models - carrying the more powerful 50 mm KwK 39 cannon. In 1943 and forwards, the Panzer III was slowly being replaced by the Panzer IV as the production was changing to the Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) tank destroyer. Few existing units underwent a conversion to StuG III in Germany while the later N models came out from the factories with a 75 mm KwK 37 cannon from the first Panzer IVs - capable of firing high explosive projectiles to take down groups of infantry, light armored vehicles and bunkers; and Schürzen spaced armor to protect its turret and chassis (or only the turret). They were tasked with infantry support tanks - a role that was given to the Panzer IV before WW2. Only 5,774 units were produced until 1943, excluding the StuG III. Other variants included the Bergepanzer III (recovery damaged / destroyed German tank), Panzerbeobachtungswagen III (Forward artillery observer tank), Flammpanzer III Ausf. M / Panzer III (Fl) (Flamethrower tank), Sturm-Infanteriegeschütz 33B' (infantry close-support heavy assault gun), Munitionspanzer III (ammunition transporter) and Flakpanzer III (anti-air mobile defense).
Let me show you the images of the Panzer III:
The Panzer III received some of the existing models from the Panzer IV, like the turret, the 50 mm KwK 39 cannon, the MG34 barrels and the wheels (the front and the middle ones). This will speed up the development while the chassis and some extra components would be made individually. The tools will be appended as well.
The rear wheel would be the front wheel, but I decided to append from the Panzer IV since they share some similarity. The storage box could also be used for the Panzer IV in case I would change some things.
After that, I added more components. Some were appended from the Panzer IV and were adjusted according to the images, like the coaxial MG34 ball turret, the driver sight, the antenna and the small wheels. Others were made for the original tank.
Amazing. I added what I believe to be the Maybach engine air intake. I used the Wireframe modifier like I did for the Panzer I and IV. Another change was the rear wheel. Fortunately some people share their works on Sketchfab, ArtStation and 3DExport websites. I prefer to view their works to have some ideas and reference instead of simply downloading it and / or take some of the components to add it to my projects (which is not what I want).
The next components to add are the lights, the tracks, the tools, the engine exhaustion outlets, the decals, the other suspension system parts and more components.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you enjoy this Blog. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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